A soft exhalation and he's quiet for a long, long moment after that. He'd resigned himself to the fact that Ignis would never share his feelings so long ago, so many years of trying to forget the hold he had on his heart.

It's enough to have his head spinning, breath coming in soft, unsteady gasps without him even realizing it. Stuttered and aborted little sounds on every other breath. Words and sentences he doesn't know the end of all fumbling to spill off his lips at once.

Finally, a moment of silence, the click of him swallowing hard when his mouth is bone dry.

"I don't... understand." It's hard to force the words out and even when he does they're faint and almost afraid. "You don't- You've never...?"